Including 12 closely related terms such as solar panel, solar panels, and panel.
… delivered solar arrays on 20 community buildings, creating enough energy to power approximately 125 homes, with plans for installation of a further 4,000 solar panels and a new Reading Hydro power scheme at Caversham Lock Fig 3: Reading’s carbon footprint (Source: UK Government emissions data) Reading Borough CO2 Emissions Industry and Commercial Electricity Industry and Commercial Gas…
… will help to stimulate the shift to zero carbon energy infrastructure in Reading. Key examples are further installation of solar panels, the installation of heat pumps that use renewable energy from rivers and ground source, the establishment of district heating network(s), bringing forward of the adoption of electric vehicles and the necessary local charging facilities and the uptake of housing…
… consistent with what the climate science has been predicting. In 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees – considered necessary to avert the most catastrophic impacts – would require ‘rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’. Through the declaration of a climate emergency in February 2019…
… that the rise in global temperature needed to be kept to 2°C. But most authorities now agree that even a 1.5°C rise is likely to have very significant negative impacts on human society and the critical ecosystems on which it depends. A key turning point in international climate change policy came in 2018 when the Inter- governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body created to assess the science…
… is for Reading – defined as the whole Reading local authority area – to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030. This target is based on the sound science outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, recognising the need for more ambitious and urgent action to avoid catastrophic climate impacts. This recognition manifested itself in the declaration of a climate emergency by Reading Borough…